I don't have Schizophrenia but telling qabout one disorder is like telling about another disorder and I told my mom one day when we were talking. She knows I was in therapy and so when she asked how much longer I would be in therapy I told her probably for some time yet because what I have can't be fixed with just a couple appointments. Then I told her that I hwas diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and what that means is that my memories have been separated and stored in my unconscious level of thinking under all kinds of names, Its kind of like a person who hit their head and now has amnesia. I have all these memories that bounce around inside my head and because they are all in pieces they don't make any sense and then there are some memories that when I get mad and so on I act them out because they too are in pieces. so like doing a jigsaw puzzle its going to take years to put the pieces back together to form one whole memory.

I was able to explain it to her because I had the facts of what my disorder was.

So my first suggestion is talk with your treatment professional and ask for pamplets and so on that explain what schizophrenia is. then read them and put what you have read into your own words and those that those you want to tell will understand.